"I don't want to live in a society that does these sort of things," Snowden said. "I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded. That is not something I am willing to support or live under ... I can't in good conscience

We followed our story about the NSA's bulk telephone record-gathering with one about the agency's direct access to the servers of the world's largest internet companies. I'm Looking Forward to future revelations that are coming shortly

"The people who do [create accountability for those in power]are heroes. They are the embodiment of heroism. They do it knowing exactly what is likely to be done to them by the planet's most powerful government, but they do it regardless."

Karen Hudes (World Bank Whistleblower) comes on to talk about the corruption in the World Bank - Shahid Buttar (Bill Of Rights Defense Committee) on the rule of law in America - Kathy Inman (State Director of NORML in AZ) provides an update on mariju

It has been three years. Bradley Manning, then 22 years old, was arrested in Baghdad on May 26, 2010. He was shipped to Kuwait, placed into a cage, and kept in the sweltering heat of Camp Arifjan.
"For me, I stopped keeping track," he told the cou

US military prosecutors said arrogance drove the American soldier who went on trial accused of orchestrating the biggest leak of classified information in U.S. history through the WikiLeaks anti-secrecy website 3 years ago.

On his show Thursday night, The Daily Show host Jon Stewart blasted the Obama administration for aggressively investigating whistle-blowers who talked to the press. He noted that while federal prosecutors had come down hard on hackers and “potheads,”

Prosecutors say they will accept an Army private's guilty plea to a lesser version of one of the 22 counts he faces. Maj. Ashden Fein said prosecutors had changed their minds about trying to convict Pfc. Bradley Manning with violating the federal

The Justice Dept inspector general said the former US attorney in Phoenix retaliated against the main whistleblower in a botched federal gun operation by leaking information to a TV producer meant to harm the whistleblower’s credibility.

One month before his January 11th suicide, web pioneer and creative commons architect Aaron Swartz completed one last project—an “opensource drop box for leaked documents along the lines of WikiLeaks.”Launched Thursday, Deaddrop is the brainchild of

In June, Bradley Manning, 25, the army private who caused the greatest security breach in US history by giving hundreds of thousands of classified war and diplomatic documents to Wikileaks, will go on trial at Fort Meade, MD.

After Officer Pedro Serrano decided to testify in federal court about what he sees as wrongdoing within the New York Police Department, a rat sticker appeared on his locker. That was the least of his problems.

“The reason whistleblowers speak up is because they care.”
Bad things happen when good people fail to act, says Margaret Heffernan. At TEDxDanubia, she explores the crucial role of whistleblowers, despite the sometimes high costs paid for uncovering

Appearing on CNN, documentary filmmaker Robert Greenwald said that his latest film will highlight the Obama administration’s ongoing “war” against people who reveal the government’s embarrassing and sometimes shocking secrets.

A military judge ruled a member of the team that raided Osama bin Laden’s compound would testify at the court-martial of Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, part of the prosecution’s attempt to link the al-Qaeda leader to material leaked by the soldier.